I travel a majority of the year volunteering with a non-profit organization.

Bare with though, I hope to read a book or two all about these sort of things,  but for the time being, I think I should focus on making money, not saving non existent money, lol.

If you are looking at this from an investment perspective, that may make your returns non-existent.

True, although some of these non-related posts have been pretty fascinating.

Staged homes spend half the time on the market compared to non-staged homes and they regularly sell for about 6% above the listed price. 

Even in non-super lien states, 90% of the time, the HOA will still try to get me to pay HOA dues owed by the previous owner.

I would not personally ever invest in a property that did not have all separate utilities in light of the potential misuse/abuse  and non payment issues that will definatly arise.

In non humid areas like Montana the Swamp coolers work fairly well.

Most coop (and that particularly true for non Manhattan coops) are practically companies ran by unpaid volunteer amateurs...a coop is a company which own a building and then lease it's unit back to shareholders...in many case you'll have a school teacher board president with an art director as a treasurer...great people with very little experience in running a company...5.

If you buy a property for $180k with an ARV of $300k and you ultimately want to refinance after rehabbing to pull cash out for another investment, you will likely only get 75% LTV, maybe 80% LTV, depending on the lender (unless you go with non-conventional lending), which leaves you with loan of $225k - $240k.